From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: someone more knowledgeable needed to pick up update of net-tools
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:47:10 +0000
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Hi,

Did you try building them without the patches? They are all build fixes excep=
t the =E2=80=9Cno hostname=E2=80=9D patch which removes the =E2=80=9Chostname=
=E2=80=9D command which comes from coreutils instead.

-Michael

> On 6 Feb 2021, at 17:26, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I saw that net-tools-1.60 was from Oct 2011 and that net-tools-2.10 had bee=
n released in Jan 2021 so I had a look at updating it.
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> However, there are 5 patches applied to net-tools. I had a look at the patc=
hes and the new source files are different at the locations  to be patched bu=
t quite different from what the patches apply.
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> It could be that the files have had the patch fixes applied but in a differ=
ent approach to how the patches did it. If the patch fixes still need to be a=
pplied then the patches need to be updated as the source files are now differ=
ent in the locations to be patched.
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> Either way I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to determine or do any =
of that. Someone else will need to pick this package update up.
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> Regards,
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> Adolf.
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